Audi R8: More details leaked about Audi’s Superbowl ad

We have found more details about Audi’s upcoming Superbowl ad for the Audi R8. We’ve told you about the use of the Godfather movie scheme already, but now more details emerge and it seems like Audi will make some fun about their competitors.

Audi is betting it can rev up its image with a parody of rivals in a Super Bowl commercial backed by a Hollywood-size production budget.

“We don’t look at this as a car ad as much as we look at it as a statement,” says Scott Keogh, vice president of marketing at Audi. “The message we want to send is between Old World and New World and say that Audi is the New World.

“The spot sets up old luxury as excessive extravagance. Audi is not about excess, it’s about substance.”

]The ad opens on a silver R8 parked in front of a Beverly Hills mansion (a real home now on the market for $200 million). Inside, a scene from the violent movie unfolds — but it’s motor oil, not blood, that’s spilled. Film buffs will recognize actor Alex Rocco, who played Vegas kingpin Moe Greene in The Godfather. The words “Old luxury has been put on notice” appear before the R8 speeds out of the driveway.

Audi paid Paramount Pictures, which released the 1972 Oscar-winner, a licensing fee that it would describe only as ranging from $500,000 to $1.5 million.

Audi.com’s about 35,000 registered users will get to see the ad first: It will be e-mailed to them on Super Bowl morning.